[MisterKent]

I am a fan of open source and being able to tinker etc. But I've never felt the need (advantage?) to do more than just use the bios/efi to boot or configure a few basics.

I've been burned by a small SBC that had poor support, but on laptops/desktops never felt limited.

But people always sound so excited to libreboot their personal computer... Am I missing out or is it just nerd cred?

[panick21_]

There is security.

The other things is bug-fixing. The way it currently works is that bugs often only get fixed for one version and other issues like that.

Getting this stuff open and having upstream heavy fixing of bugs will imporve the ecosystem.

The other things is performance. Faster boot times are quite nice.

The other things is being able to better play with more advanced boot security concepts, booting with Bluetooth/NFC verification and so on.

And once its open, and you can more easily work with it, and its more available, hopefully more people do more interesting work with it.

That said, its not an absolute priority for me, but its just a better long term solution. So companies that push it are a big plus.

[forevernoob]

I'd say that after numerous revelations in regards to UEFI vulnerabilities and such, an open source BIOS / EFI has become a necessity for me rather than something just nice to have.

[p_l]

A lot of those revelations are due to majority of EFI code other than vendor specific drivers being quite open source unlike the bad old times.

Still would like an end to end open source UEFI bootchain, most groups end when they hit the 60% of stuff they need for their limited use cases : - |